The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. If you are laying a trap for donald trump, this might be exactly how youd do it. Okay, professor, what will President Trump do now . Well, if hes smart, hell take advantage of this and not fire either any of these people, not mueller, not rosenstein, and not sessions. So this is important point because i think a lot of people are really scared after the
rosensteins people to come out and say, he expects to be fired. His people were putting that out to what end, we dont know at this point but cer
power to president biden and so it seemed like a slap dash operation. do you blame the guy who packed it or do you blame the person who was standing over him or was there even an operation. one thing i m sure you and i both know from covering trump there weren t a lot of operations, there weren t a lot of procedures going on, it was a real slap dash kind of thing. it could have been an oversight or it could have been trump saying i want this, i want that, i want this. we haven t figured that out. i get the slap dash at the beginning, again, this is what we re talking about because the timeline has been extended to the beginning, but then there were 20 months of back and forth between them all and at some point you would think someone would have to know what was there or there would have to be some knowledge or some intent to figure out what was there. i think the bottom line is trump doesn t care what the national archives says. it s not an important institution to him, that he liv
could be uncovered, but also nervous about the impact it may have on this fall s midterms, particularly if this, if trump decides that in order to counteract this, he needs to declare his candidacy for president, a lot of gop members that i speak to say that would be the worst thing that it could be for the party, trump would be a distraction and shift the focus from what they want to talk about, things like inflation, president biden s record, et cetera. so how we got here, mark, your reporting shows that from the beginning, trump s handling of official documents was, quote, slap dash and ad hoc, kind of a pattern, right, we ve seen over many years, even before he was president. right, there were stories actually in politico, most famously, of donald trump taking documents, ripping them up, and throwing them on the floor. now, these weren t top-secret documents, but these are things that were supposed to be preserved under the presidential records act. they had to have aides tape
former president if he is found to mishandle classified information after leaving office. this is something that he signed into law in 2018. it upgraded the seriousness of wrongdoing in terms of moving classified information from a misdemeanor into a felony. increasing the maximum sentence to five years. that could be a problem. marc, in the piece you co-authored for nbc news, you write that trump s style of handling white house documents has been described by people who worked for him as slap dash and ad hoc. you and your colleagues write, quote, when john kelly became white house chief of staff in the summer of 2017, he said he would remind trump about the importance of abiding by the presidential records act. a newcomer to public office who is accustomed to running his business his own way, trump chafed under the regimen. kelly said, when i got there, a retired four-star marine
officials saying the attacks are looking better coordinated now. does russia have the leadership, traening, troops to adapt and recover from previous losses? given enough time and enough push from behind, they will make progress. they are still mostly in the east despite the talk about the wide open areas and so forth. the ground is still soft. there s no mad slap dash to try to run through the ukrainian lines which is what they try to do north of kyiv. as they practice day by day moving forward, calling artillery an locating enemy